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Published: September 11th 2016
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Today is a huge 122km bike race from Vancouver to Whistler with 4000 entries. It is called the GranFondo and is one of the main cycling events in North America each year. The main car park is closed for competitors and prize giving, roads are diverted and the main road has a lane taken out. So, what to do in order not to get too tangled with this event?
Our host suggested that since we were in Whistler South we should continue in that area and hike up a river valley to a small lake called Logger Lake. It would also incorporate seeing the bike riders coming up the main route into Whistler. First, we went into Creekside to get some lunch then packed a backpack and set off on a shared bike trail just down the road a little way. It is a two laned path, sealed with a yellow line down the middle and goes for many kilometres throughout the valley. Not far down the path we were adjacent to the main road so stopped to view the riders as they came off the flat and up the hill into Whistler. These were the early ones and as
we found out several hours later, the stragglers were still riding.
We followed the path to a small village that had been the Olympic Village for competitors in 2010. The apartments now seem to be privately owned although one building is the Youth Hostel and there we found an unexpected cafe attended to by an Aussie. It's difficult to know what to ask for here because for the last two days here we have been given huge mugs of coffee despite asking for something smaller. Barbara and Jim would be great fans of the coffee here.
From the small settlement we headed off up the Riverside Trail which runs along a lovely cascading river. The trail is up and down and sometimes quite steep so it wasn't an easy hike. We were always on the lookout for bears but never saw any only something that looked like a bear cave and we weren't game to explore it. Several kilometres later we reached the turnoff to Logger Lake where we had lunch and then trudged our way up a steep path to the lake which looks like it sits in a crater. I saw some columnar jointing along the
A strange caterpillar
Which is front and which is back path so wondered if it might be basalt. The lake is quite picturesque and is a fishing, hiking, biking and swimming spot.
On the way back we crossed over the river on a suspension bridge and continued down on the other side on a trail used by cyclists and walkers. Five hours later from our start we arrived back at the B&B with very sore feet and please to sit down, shower and relax for a few hours before heading off to Creekside for dinner, thus ending our most enjoyable time in Whistler. This is a place I could easily live in with it's lovely environment and setting. It's great for mountains, hiking, cycling, golfing, eating out, winter sport and so much more.
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